WASTE MANAGEMENT PROJECT
| Is waste management a problem in your school or neighbourhood? Have
you ever been disturbed with the abundance of paper, plastic waste or water
waste in and around your locality? This has raised concern among Ugandans
after a recent out break of cholera in our country mainly due to poor waste
management problems.
Thus there is need for an interpersonal exchange tele- collaborative project on waste management in schools and the vicinity, with great emphasis on Social Action. |
1. Objectives
-To create a global awareness to the problem of waste management.
-To collaborate with students , teachers and environmentalists world wide and find out how waste is collected in schools and surroundings,
-To suggest the most efficient methods for managing wastes and to implement them.
2. Audience
secondary school students, teachers and environmentalists from all disciplines and extra curricular activities.
3. Schedule
The project will begin in November 1998 with an exchange on informal discussions to develop on-line community of inquiry . Participants will exchange Email reports of 200 words or more per category as follows :
Phase 1:
November 10 - November 25 Informal Discussions
November 31 Paper Waste Management
December 10 .Plastic Waste Management
December 20 ......Water waste management
January 10 ..Vegetative waste management
February20 .......................................Air pollution and management
Phase 2:
The second phase of the project will take on a unique turn in that for several months running, all the students will involve them themselves in the Social Action component of each of the various forms of Waste Management Problem in our community which affects both the School and the people living in the villages neighbouring the school.
4.Category reports (200 words)
The reports should be titled .Reports:country/group.
Groups
a-Paper Products Group
This group of students will gather data on paper collection and its disposal The paper problem could be from within their own institutions or immediate neighbourhood .
b-Plastic products Group.
The students in this group will be responsible for the reports on plastic waste collection and its disposal or recycling.
c-Safe Water group
As for this group, reports on the safe handling of water and reduction and elimination of water pollution is their prime duty.
d-Vegetative products groups
This group will collect information management of vegetative wastes and how to recycle the wastes .
e-Air pollution group
Their task will be to collect information on the pollution of the atmosphere and possible remedies to these problems.
Co-ordinators
The co-ordinators of these project are Ugandan teachers :
Sr. Cephas Commack (Headmistress ), Mr. Labongo Badru (Physics, Mathematics Teacher), Mr. Mutiibwa Francis (Head of Physics Department), Mrs. Byaruhanga Stella (Head of Chemistry department) all from Mt. St. Marys College Namagunga.
Contacts:
For Project, send replies to: msmn@swiftuganda.com
OR
Mt. St. Marys College Namagunga
P.O.Box 18,
Lugazi,
Uganda.
Tel: 256-041-448280
For the Co-ordinators:
Sr. Cephas Commack cephas_c@hotmail.com
Mr.Labongo Badru labongob@hotmail.com
Mr.Mutiibwa Francis mutiibwa@hotmail.com
Mrs.Byaruhanga Stella sbyaru@msmn.ac.ug
